---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ITfC Team <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 6:28 PM Subject: Statement by Anita Gurumurthy at the Opening Session of IGF 2016 To: Dear friends, Greetings from IT for Change! (www.itforchange.net) Here's a link <http://www.itforchange.net/Anita_at_IGF_2016> (http://www. itforchange.net/Anita_at_IGF_2016) to the statement made by Anita Gurumurthy (Executive Director, IT for Change) at the Opening Session of the Internet Governance Forum 2016, Guadalajara, Mexico. Her submission stressed the urgent need for social movements to come together to re-imagine an alternative internet, one that makes possible a society that is free and equal. The first step towards this is to acknowledge that an Internet that can be individually empowering, collectively enriching and ecologically restorative is possible only through a democratic rule of law that guarantees the mechanisms of accountability, in global internet governance. Regards IT for Change team -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/